One of the more difficult problems that the performance team faces is determining when an athlete is ready to return to action after injury. The athlete can be placed under enormous pressure from the owner, coach, fans and media to get out on the track, field or floor in record time.

High-Performance Training for Sports presents today’s best
athlete conditioning protocols and programs in the world. An elite group
of international strength and conditioning specialists and sport
physiotherapists explain and demonstrate the most effective applications
of the most current sport science and sports medicine to enhance
athletic performance.

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High-Performance Training for Sports changes the landscape of athletic conditioning and sports performance. This groundbreaking work presents the latest and most effective philosophies, protocols and programmes for developing today’s athletes.

High-Performance Training for Sports features contributions from global leaders in athletic performance training, coaching and rehabilitation. Experts share the cutting-edge knowledge and techniques they’ve used with Olympians as well as top athletes and teams from the NBA, NFL, MLB, English Premier League, Tour de France and International Rugby.

Combining the latest science and research with proven training protocols, High-Performance Training for Sports will guide you in these areas:

Optimise the effectiveness of cross-training.

Translate strength into speed.

Increase aerobic capacity and generate anaerobic power.

Maintain peak conditioning throughout the season.

Minimise the interference effect.

Design energy-specific performance programmes.

Whether you are working with high-performance athletes of all ages or with those recovering from injury, High-Performance Training for Sports is the definitive guide for developing all aspects of athletic performance. It is a must-own guide for any serious strength and conditioning coach, trainer, rehabilitator or athlete.

David Joyce is one of the first people in the world to lecture on
and hold postgraduate master’s degrees encompassing both sports science
and sports medicine. He has trained, rehabilitated, and maintained
multiple World and Olympic Champions, along with more than 100 national
champions and 300 national representatives. The first athletic
performance coach in history to work with Team China after having worked
with another national Olympic team, Joyce is currently head of athletic
performance at Western Force, the most traveled team in world sport, in
the toughest club rugby competition in the world spanning Australia, New
Zealand and South Africa. He lives in Western Australia.

Daniel Lewindon is uniquely qualified with postgraduate master’s
degrees in both sports science and sports medicine. He has more than 12
years’ experience working full-time in elite sport, and is currently a
physiotherapist for the Rugby Football Union, working as part of a world
leading Performance Team to ensure the health and performance of
England’s best rugby players.